"the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers ... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art' ... (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have."

-- Willem de Kooning

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“Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.”

Source : "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.
“I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.”
“To clarify, the issue isn't that I'm too fat, it's that I'm too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!”
“My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron, J. Paul Getty Museum (1996). “Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.6, Getty Publications
“There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.”
“If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.”
“I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Revolution is not a one time event.”

Source : "Sister Outsider". Book by Audre Lorde, 1984.

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